[000:00:00;00] penna berlinali with the film he shot in ukraine superpower does not compete for festival awards, however, the attention to the film is huge because his co-director became life itself then in february 2022 sean pen found himself in ukraine for work together with his colleague aeron kaufman the star actor came to ukraine about which almost knew nothing about making a film about volodymyr zelensky, a kind of hollywood success story. we planned to make a film about a showman comedian who became the president. we came to kyiv on february 23, talked with zelensky and agreed to meet next

in the middle of the night, with a camera, rocket fire began. pen and his team returned to kyiv to shoot a film about courage , resilience and spirit, about the super strength of the ukrainian people. ukrainian hugs and courage. i believe that ukrainians are the new beatles of the world and we should just keep listening to their music until they win their victory and go eat borscht. the team filmed in kyiv on the front line in donetsk oblast in a camp for refugees in neighboring poland, the film is based on the conversations of the residents of ukraine, the military, who are protecting volunteers and politicians , including president zelensky. our next meeting he was in camouflage and his country was in a state of war and there was

a feeling at this moment in the film that he was reincarnated. he didn't know what was going to happen but it was as if he was born for this moment for this year, sean penn became one of the most famous promoters of ukraine abroad, both in the film and in all public speeches. he asks the world for help. the most significant humanitarian response of the world to the war should be the supply of long-range missiles to a country that is experiencing an invasion, that has dreams and expectations shown in our film after its premiere at the berlinale, the public however, the first impact was on volodymyr zelensky and he seems to have liked it today ukraine, the fortress of the free world, a fortress that has stood for almost a year

a fortress that defends itself europe and the world a fortress that cannot fall a fortress that will definitely stand and win i know i know and i believe that you will all be convinced of this after seeing our superpower superpower ukraine glory to ukraine the creative team is currently negotiating the release of a film about super strength was seen as moga fighting tetyana logunova ishla frolov details german bureau of tv channel intermarathon the only news these were the main news of the day the marathon continues stay with us we are strong in our fight for that we are even stronger in unity the unity of the whole world hand

in hand, side by side at one table, god of ukraine and freedom, be with us today from dozens of political tribunes, europe and america , democratic countries of all continents , sports and cultural community, hello, i am betstiller and i am in ukraine, support in ukraine, come to the country, help , give weapons, give i hope for a prosperous future, our land and we will definitely win for the sake of the freedom of our people and peace in the whole world with us, the whole world, tell me honestly how are you holding up now, this answer is relevant for me because you have a responsibility for your family for your children you have a job to do we survive and we have to go through it and we will definitely survive

focus on your legs lift one of them and make an active movement as if you are trying to shake something out of yourself a dog shaking just after getting out of the water. try to relax as much as possible the leg with which you are making the movements, then do exactly the other one further from the right behind the hands, perform the exercise several times , alternating the direction and imagine that together with the movements , you are gradually shaking off all the negativity that you have accumulated, add this technique in his a self-help kit more here energoprom starts with your home today millions of old lamps consume more than a gigabyte of continuous energy every day for replacement energypront about the requirements of the european union allows ukrainians to exchange 5 incandescent lamps for free on a modern economy in any branch of ukrposhta in order to guarantee them to receive

a lamp armor - this is a relationship of actions would replace, add energy to our country, light up together the history of the search, the course of which can be changed by everyone, as it is precipitation and this project to find your own today's stories originate from in donetsk region , these are stories about two civilian men who do not know each other and whose biographies have something in common

. the child was in my arms for two months and plus four children were already standing there watching as dad was taken prisoner, they told me what to expect in 15 years if we take him away, they took him and i have not seen him again, these are the wives of the disappeared who contacted us almost at the same time they demand publicity or their children did not know what it was like to grow up without a father, the car stopped, the street was blocked from both sides, and there were many of them with automatic weapons in uniform, they went to our house, they turned everything over her husband. iryna remembers the day when she last saw her husband 51-

year-old viktor kuzmenko since then. it has been 10 months since they met in their native mariupol, on the first anniversary of ukraine's independence, love flared up as in the cinema there was a mass celebration in mariupol. he saved me from hooligans, young girls were and were and a couple of guys decided there, they couldn't, they didn't come out to us, and here's a daughter - it's like a gift you're not expected, not planned here he was so happy that he had a daughter , he was born in the czech republic to read, he took her to dances, he was born that way when our daughter performed in the drama theater was very somehow in recent years, it was so good, the family

idyll was destroyed by the great war after february 24, they were unable to leave mariupol , at first there was no transport. kuzmenka's family escaped from the shelling in the basement of their own apartment building in the central district. we were in the basement of our house. thieves shot at our house. i don't understand . how is it possible that so many people lived and what was done to them? it's scary at the end of march. when it became a little quieter, the family moved to an old house nearby that was inherited by irina from her grandparents. when irina

talks about those terrible days, she admits that she felt that the invaders could come for her lover from day to day, we understood that something it will be because they have already started to detain those who served in the national guard or the police . on may 1, during the so-called cleaning of the city, ira saw her husband for the last time. then the russian soldiers did not let the couple even say goodbye . there were four of them in our yard with machine guns in uniform near the yard. there was a man standing 8, apparently they took away his documents, those who found the passport and the work book gave him nothing to do with the family , at the same time the occupiers said that the woman would not meet victor soon, in the best case

, after 15 years, iryna was very scared and she was confused and eventually managed to control herself for the sake of the children of her lover, who needed to be saved. the police were already russian, then i went there looking for some strongholds, no one saw anything, we don’t know. we don’t have such a thing, then a soldier who was standing near the prosecutor’s office told me to look for it. mangushchi with her six-year-old daughter and the council went to mongush, which is 20 km from mariupol . there was hope that they would soon meet again, but it didn't happen.

dokuchayevsk and beyond well, search in dokuchayevsk. i tried to find a car, but people either didn't drive and wanted such money that i couldn't. she didn't have enough money to pay. iryna was convinced that her husband had been betrayed by local collaborators, and that's why the woman was afraid to give her word to someone. because no one i trusted that everything would be fine with the child. it's okay for her to at least have her mother. you must be silent in june. ira and the children managed to leave the city and she continued to look for a husband with renewed strength. i submitted all applications to the police ombudsman, that is, the entire road map fulfilled the un red cross, in addition, i made requests to russia in the dpr in the lpr so far, in june, i received only one response from that side. the so-called

human rights commissioner in the self-proclamation of the dpr informed irina viktor is in the donetsk pre-trial detention center on august 15, he was in the donetsk season, all i know about him is where viktor is now unknown, because to iryna's repeated inquiries about the condition of her husband, the occupiers have already answered that they don't have one. so we ask you to look at these photos. if you know anything about viktor kuzmenko, let me know, children they are waiting for him very much, his daughter is still holding on, his daughter is very much waiting for his father, and the wishes for nicholas when you wrote were to return his father and to give

him a pug, these are two such wishes, he dreams of returning his father to the children, and katya says sweet meat while the father is in captivity, i have nothing like that, hug me when the father is put on his knees in front of the temple it is very scary this is not kateryna's husband 38-year-old dmytro katsura the couple met six years ago in the bakery where katya worked dmytro had just finished his service in the ato and that's it i was supposed to return home to khmelnytskyi and it happened. it was not as it was supposed to be. how we met and he says listen to what i say zaya

let's get married so that it was spontaneous but it was very interesting and it was very funny and i agreed . they lived together in the village of nikolske, which is 20 km from mariupol dmytro worked as a forester, katya took care of the children, the couple had five , two daughters and three sons, the youngest bohdanchyk just turned a year old, he has three more, well, together with me, i have to support the air, you can say it already at the beginning in march, nikolsk was occupied and dmytro was immediately reported to the neighbors by collaborators who drove by. the neighbors ran, there was no light and they needed something to charge these generators . they exposed the man and for that they were given fuel for

the generators. then the occupiers released dmytro quickly and katya did not have time to recover from the shock which had to experience how the occupiers took her husband away for the second time. we were standing to buy potatoes to eat and they took him right from the queue and kept him there for a long time and beat him. well, they started somewhere around 12 neighbors behind us they made sure that we didn't go anywhere, nothing. on march 19, the russians came to the family for the third time, this time they tortured dmytro in front of their little children. what did they do? they put a gun to the cart. i thought they were going to kill him. the children were crying , screaming, "dad, why are you taking him away?" then the russian military said katya, who will take dmytro for filtration and let him go

after 3-4 days, and the husband was not there and he was not there, and katya rushed to look for him with us, he is not the only one. he dill is a nazi, russians started coming to us, and i was afraid for the children. on august 24, on independence day, katya and the children managed to leave for the territory controlled by ukraine, and on september 18, she received the first news from her husband through a stranger . dmytro told his wife that he was being held in horlivka in donetsk region, and he asked to take good care of the children and that everything would be fine with them, and later dmytro made himself known once again

, his husband sent a letter home to nikolskyi , but what he wrote in it is unknown , the letter arrived in the village, the letter is received which he sent me was taken away. but the next day, the neighbors called my mother and threatened the most. katya is afraid that her husband will be sentenced to life imprisonment and neither she nor their children will ever see him again. i went to the russians and asked where my husband was what do you hold him, they told me, your husband is a former atoshnik and his ego will be judged . parkon shot people, i say he did not shoot people, he defended his land. why do you hold ours? katya has already contacted all

possible institutions and russia has not yet confirmed that he is in captivity. and when if there are five people and a baby, please. when we were preparing this episode for broadcast, our first heroine iryna received another letter from the so-called human rights commissioner from the self-proclaimed dpr. in this letter, viktor kuzmenko is recognized as a prisoner, but called not a former and current national guardsman, according to the laws of the so-called dpr , he faces at least 10 years of labor . i told these and other similar stories to the human rights commissioner of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, dmytro

lubinets, he says to a former serviceman are the pensioners of the law enforcement agencies kidnapped by the occupiers civilians and according to international law they should simply be released , it is clear that there are a lot of abuses on the part of the russian federation when they en masse take former soldiers and say that they are prisoners of war, what is the chance of return, who would be skeptical now after these words of mine but russia is very afraid of international pressure, and we are currently working on making sure that on many international platforms this information sounds that russia is massive detained civilians of ukraine and simply keeps them captive together with the national police and the national information bureau, we are ready to help everyone, so if you know anything about people in search, write to our email or

call 102 or 4:48 p.m. new search stories watch monday at 9 p.m. :15 search and don't give up, i congratulate anastasia for a long time and this is the my story program, an interview about how ukrainians behave, what they feel, and most importantly , how they act in times of war and today we will listen to the story of the writer lyubko deresha greetings, mr. lyubomyr. greetings, ms. anastasia rybka. deresh is one of the most famous modern authors of ukraine. they even say that if

you want to understand the generation of ukrainians, or the generation of zero tenths, then buy any novel by deresh and everything will become clear about modern ukrainians. i hope it is not about mother drugs and some marginal social practices are the things that are probably what made my first books famous. why did i acquire just such a title in quotation marks of a cult writer because of the name of the first cult novel ? i hope that in those 20 years that my books came out after all, and the generation has changed a little. well, my texts have also become different. lyubomyr, you have always been at the forefront of the literary front as a representative of the bright intellectual elite, but you stood aside , the politicians kept to themselves, but today the great geopolitics has knocked at the home

of every ukrainian, and no one can stand aside anymore to be what do you think is the current role and place of a ukrainian writer where is your place now a-a really for a long time i perceived the role of a writer in ukraine precisely as a person who should be a-a outside of politics and this phrase that a poet in ukraine has more than a poet. yes, it has for a long time. well, i laughed a little because different times came in the 90s, and actually in those of this generation . he must be against politics, and that's why this idea that a writer should not be involved in politics so actively, if it had such a strong effect on me, then only

in the 16th and 17th years uh, it became clear that really uh, this phrase makes sense, and probably starting from the 17th and 18th centuries, and the role a writer, she really was more than just a writer, she was to preserve not just a writer, but to preserve ukrainian identity, and in this sense , it seems to me that this is exactly what a writer should do now, that one of the important fronts is the preservation of ukrainian identity. and this outline its boundaries are the formation of certain horizons. where should this identity develop further, to understand who we are and to talk about this identity through texts, through poetry, through prose, through novels , which will highlight certain things, well, first of all

turn problematic places of this identity , i observe in a certain way the discourse of the ukrainian m. to gain intellectual independence, how to gain it by talking about our intellectual identity we must keep certain western landmarks. this is the light that goes through the christian era of the west, but it also begins from ancient times, we must keep it as a reference point, but direct it to

ourselves so that it illuminates all those norms, examples, standards that exist in ukrainian culture, so that we understand ourselves precisely in the context of western civilization and give ourselves the answer to who we are colonial, some answers that we could keep from russian culture are not answers. well, they are more postmodern and a little bit post-colonial, but purely in the western sense, without taking into account the specific ukrainian experience and for that so that this originality is independence, our intellectual sovereignty deepens, we need to create a favorable environment for this, and it must be open and

it must be free from a-a m-m slander from alienation, that is, if we want to be really strong, we do not have our own diversity is to be accepted not as a threat, but as a resource, and russia, which is very well versed in psychological operations and which, well , any otherness, any dissimilarity to some dominant, let’s say, cultural line is beginning to be used as a tool for the split of ukrainian society is a very simple very simple example of literature as we see it history well history we see our history as a-a recognition of all voices that were a-a in ukrainian culture or only ukrainian ukrainian-speaking voices let's say

the writer sholom-alayhem yes and who lived and worked in ukraine, and is he a part of ukrainian culture or is it because he is a jew, because he wrote in idy, we exclude him from the body of culture, we can sharpen this topic, the writer bulgakov, who lived in kyiv, is he a part of ukrainian culture well, with bulgakov, it seems to me much more difficult than just with shalom-aleichem there or with certain polish-speaking or a-a and dyshe-speaking or armenian-speaking writers and artists who worked in ukraine if we speak in general how to perceive such phenomena as mykhailo bulgakov mykhailo bulgakov who on the border, let's say so, on the one hand, he lived in ukraine, he interacted very closely with the ukrainian environment , on the other hand, well, let's say so, he creates the impression, after all, that ukraine is enough of

a ukrainofopic eh, of an ocrimphobic personality well, first of all, each of them should be considered in detail by certain special commissions of ukrainian diverse culture, it is a part of ukrainian history, i will say yes. shift a-a on ukrainian territory but will we incorporate it into ukrainian culture, which means learning to honor and give some due to it, is another question, and i think that on a number of such issues, e-e incorporation into ukrainian culture a-a we should, well, if not immediately give a negative answer, then at least take a certain quarantine pause. i think that

a quarantine pause is a wiser decision than immediately and indiscriminately deleting all names, this is a period that can last there and five and 10 years and 25 years yes and time is enough for us to be able to unhurriedly understand what truly ukrainian culture is now and then return to marginal phenomena and give them an assessment from the position of well already e let's say the core of a certain which we protected by which a-a clearly outlined and said that we are we we live on the basis of such now let's say on the basis of pluralism yes or on